Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-31

~ ia tiidt way. ne anu HI3 mObu-
er." she explained, kept this mfr
NIFTY OF my nephew's Iii be had III
secret. When they we're both staying
with us on visit, ne was found lying
Tor dead on the road. His mother
said. and he said, it was an accident
caused by a fall. All ] can tell youis,
that the doctor who brought him 70
his senses called tia fit"
After considering little with him.
sell, Antony begged leave to put one
question more. He asked for the
name OF the village in which the inn,
once kept by Thomas Harris, was
situated. Having received this infor-
nation, he got up to say good bye.
His uncle and aunt wanted to know
why he was leaving them in that sud
den way.
To this he returned rather a strange
answer: II have fancy for making
acquaintance with two of the witness
es at the trial, and mean to try if 1
can hear OF them in the village"
The man-servant and the woman
servant who had been in the employ
ment OF Thomas Harris, had good
characters, and were allowed to keep
their places by the person who sue
ceeded to possession OF the inn. I'm
der the new proprietor the business
had fallen off. The place was asso-
GATED with murder, AMI prejudice
against it existed in the minds of
travellers. The bedrooms were all
empty. one evening. when a stranger
arrived, who described himself as an
angler DESTROYS of exercising his skill
IN the trout-steam which ran near the
village.
He was handsome man, still young,
with pleasant manners, and with some
thing IN his fine upright figure which
suggested to the new landlord that
he might have been at one time in the
army. Everybody in the village liked
him; he spent his money freely; and
he was especially kind and consider
ate towards the servants.
Elias Morgan frequently accompa-
MED him on his fishing excursions.
Maria Mackling looked after his linen
with extraordinary care; contrived to
meet him constantly on the stairs;
and greatly enjoyed the compliments
which the handsome gentleman paid
to her on these occasions.
In the exchange of condolences that
followed, he told Maria that he was q,
single man, and he was thereupon in
formed that the chambermaid and the
waiter were engaged to be married.
They were only waiting to find better
situations, and to earn money enough
to start in business for themselves.
In the third week of the strangers
residence at the inn, there occurred g.
change for the worse in his relations
with one OF the two servants. He ex-
cited the jealousy of Elias Morgan.
This man set himself to watch
Maria, and made discoveries which SO
| eDraged him, that henot only behaved
brutally to his affiapced, but forgot
| the respect due TO his masters guest.
The amiable gentleman, who had
shown such condescending kindness
| toward his interiors, suddenly exhibit
eo truculent temper. He knocked
the waiter down. Elias got up again
with an evil light in his eyes. He said.
The man who once kept this house
knocked me down, and he lived, sir,
to be sorry for it,
Self-betrayed by those threatening
words, Elias went out of the room.
Having discovered in this way that
his suspicious of one OF the witnesses
against tie unfortunate Harris had
been well founded, Antony Gray set
his trap next to catch the woman,
and achieved result which he had
not ventured to contemplate.
Having obtained a private inter
view with Maria Mackling, he present.
ed himself in the character OF a peni-
tent man. 81 am afraid" he said,
that have innocently lowered you
IN the estimation OF your jealous
sweet heart; | shall never forgive my
self, ii | had been so unfortunate as
to raise an obstacle to your MAJ.
rlage."
| Maria rewarded the handsome,
single gentleman with look which ex-
pressed modest anxiety to obtain a
position in his estimation.
81 must forgive you, if You can't
! forgive yourself" she answered, softly.
Indeed. | owe you debt of graft
| tude. You have released me from an
engagement to brute And, what is
more she added, beginning to lose
! her temepr, IAN ungrateful brute
But for me, Elias Morgan might have
Ceen put in prison, and have richly
deserved it,"
Antony did his best to persuade her
to speak more plainly. But Maria
was on her guard. and plausibly de-
ferred explanation to future oppor
tunity. She had, nevertheless, said
enough already to lead to serious
consequences.
The Jealous waiter, still a self-ap-
pointed spy on Maria's movements,
had heard in hiding all that passed at
theinterview. Partly inrevenge, partly
! in his own interests, he decided on
| anticipating any confession on the
| chambermaid' 5 part. The same day
he presented himself before Parson
/ Tibbald as II repentant criminal, re-
signed to eniiIhten justice in the char
acter of Kings Evidence.
The infamous conspiracy to which
Thomas Harris had fallen a victim
had been first suggested by his Own
misery habits.
Purely by accident, In the first in
stance, the woman servant had seen
him secretly buryins money under
the tree, and had informed the man
servant oil her discovery.
He had examined the hiding place,
with view to robbery which might
benefit his sweetheart and himself,
and had found the sum secreted toe
small to be worth the risk OF COM
uniting theft. Biding their time. he
and mis- accomplish privately watched
the addition made to their master $